Re: Measuring exploitation

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 4:36 PM 5/15/96, Paul Cockshott wrote:>

Carnell
>-------
>How do *you* measure 'exploitation'?
>
>Cockshott
>---------
>It is best done at the level of the economy as a whole.
>I have tended to use national income statistics in my
>work, other authors use input-output tables. The
>authorative account of the methodolgy to be used is
>given in Shaik and Tonak, 'Measuring the Wealth of
>Nations'.
>
>For the US good figures are given by Mosely:
>
>Exploitation  in the US over 4 decades, after Moseley

[etc.]

The World Bank publishes a wages as percent of value added in manufacturing
for lots of countries over 20-30 years in its annual World Tables. They are
in a downtrend in most of the countries I've looked at, with the prominent
exception of S Korea. Here are the numbers from World Tables 1994:

UK
1972    51.3
1990    42.0

US
1972    45.3
1990    35.6

Germany
1972    47.7
1990    41.6

Japan
1972    34.8
1990    33.0

Canada
1972    51.6
1990    44.1

Sweden
1972    51.7
1990    34.8

S Korea
1972    23.5
1990    30.5 (!)

Mexico
1972    41.4
1990    20.1

Peru
1972    20.5
1988    13.9



Doug

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